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Categories: Complications Emotions
Tags: depression mortality statistics
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A study published in the December edition of Diabetes Care magazine (an ADA publication) examined the links between diabetes, depression and mortality in older adults.
Not surprisingly, untreated depression led to a much higher death rate in 5 years than if there was depression intervention. Intervention was either an anti-depressant or psychotherapy.
It is difficult to take care of all the aspects of this disease on a good day, when you're depressed it's nearly impossible. How hard is it to go out for your daily walk when you just want to keep your head under the covers? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: depression ditching appointments Endocronologist
Views: 1334
Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: fighting with other diabetics
Views: 770
What I really need is a good online diabetes-related battle. Nothing lights up the 'ole blog switchboard like a feud. I came across a rather heated one in the blogosphere recently. So lucky. All I ever get is nothing but stinkin' compassion and support. Anyone got a beef with me? Anyone? Come on, don't make me beg.
Type 2s? Come on, type 2s. When was the last time I addressed your concerns? How about like never. All I do is talk about my type 1 son. Booooring!
Type 1s? Come on, hit me!
I thought I had a real shot with the Sotomayor piece, but unfortunately most of those who commented, directed their anger not at me but instead at the fictional characters I created. Sigh.
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Categories: Type 2 Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: Diabetes motivation role models self-care sugar
Views: 257
In today's environment of cheap-to-the-patient pills that can cure almost anything from a hangnail to cancer, it's sometimes difficult to make significant and often-difficult lifestyle changes on account of a disease or a medical condition. Rarely is this more evident than in the public appearance of Type 2 diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: hospital newly diagnosed resources
Views: 784
Where to even start...?
And that is the point, you don't know where.
When someone is newly diagnosed with diabetes, where should their educational journey begin? Sure, there is the inevitable hospital stay, and the chat with a doctor, and possibly a self-injection tutorial (for the insulin requiring crowd), but what is the next step... after the hospital scene?
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Categories: Type 2 Food Fitness Real Life
Tags: Diet and exercise lifestyle changes
Views: 2885
I was cleaning the kitchen today. Since I was laid off this has taken a chunk of my daily life. I never much cared for the tedium of kitchen cleaning, but now that we're all home so much more, eating 3 times more meals here, the chore has become relentless. But I digress.
As I was unloading the dishwasher, it struck me that I wouldn't want my endo to see the current dishload. There were too many pizza wheels and glasses and not enough mixing spoons and silverware. Maybe Dr. R-J wouldn't get the connection, but a forensic kitchen examiner would have it in a heartbeat. CSI: Cordon Bleu, anyone?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: complications relationships support
Views: 1747
Sometimes I am shocked at how invisible diabetes can be. I was having practice at church the other night for the contemporary band when my Bass player asked us to pray for him.
"Of course! What is going on?"
He explains to me that he is having surgery on his eye to drain fluid in it and would just like us to keep him in our prayers. He started telling us about how he had this same surgery on his other eye and that it worked really well so he his hopeful that this surgery will be another success. I asked him what causes the problem he is having.
"Diabetes." (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: h1n1
Views: 527
"If he has trouble breathing, bring him in immediately," the nurse practitioner said earlier today. Or was it yesterday? I’m so tired. I’m typing in the dark, watching Charlie sleep. Listening to his breathing. It’s 3:56 am.
I’m fully dressed in middle of the night emergency attire. Yankees baseball cap to cover bed head and big bags under my eyes. Wrinkled first-I-could-find shirt probably on backwards. I’m writing to stay awake. 30 minutes ago I carried Charlie’s burning body downstairs and got ready to take him to the ER. He was glassy-eyed with a very high fever and coughed a horribly painful cough when he tried to speak. We looked at each other nervously.
We were doing our rounds, Susanne and I, shooting grape-flavored Motrin into the mouths of our two other kids.
Three kids with the swine flu.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: guilt lack of control poor management
Views: 907
For the past few weeks, my diabetes management has really gone by the wayside. I've been so consumed with my job, my new project, school, and catching up on things that I haven't been able to invest the time that I usually do with my diabetes. And it's giving me a guilty conscious.
Typically, I look at my averages every day and analyze for daily trends I see. I upload at least once a month and analyze all of that data. I count carbs fairly accurately, instead of just plugging in a number that sounds "about right." And I make sure to treat accordingly.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: dad Diabetes fresh start moving forward Type 2
Views: 1053
As many of you have read this week in my other blogs, I have had a lot going on. I have a very important job interview today and besides that many people I know have been dealing with a variety of health issues. One issue that is very personal and by far the most important is that my very own Poppa has some stuff going on. I was reluctant to share this information with everyone until I got a better idea myself of what exactly was happening.
At this point, I am extremely thankful, but it appears he will be ok. We still don't know a whole lot right now, but ultimately we did learn that he will begin taking medication for type 2 diabetes. My dad will began taking the medication called Metformin, due to having very high blood sugars. I am so unbelievably thankful that we have caught this early enough that hopefully he will continue to remain healthy.
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